<![CDATA[AV Press]]> /press/ en Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:12:25 +0200 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:39:50 +0100 <![CDATA[AV Press]]> https://content.presspage.com/clients/150_2529.png /press/ 144 Industry Clean Up Day – May 2023 /press/industry-clean-up-day--may-2023/ /press/industry-clean-up-day--may-2023/688461The team of AV Australia participated in an Industry Clean Up Day in May, the first time for a number of years that the Chemical Industry has come together to run this event. Organized by Dow, and through Chemistry Australia and Tangaroa Blue, a total of 96 people volunteered their time through a range of organizations, including the Chemical industry, Transport Industry and Local Councils.

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About AV: 
AV is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high-quality polymer materials and their components. With its innovative products, processes and methods, the company helps enhance sustainability and the quality of life in many areas. AV supplies customers around the world in key industries such as mobility, building and living, as well as the electrical and electronics sector. In addition, polymers from AV are also used in sectors such as sports and leisure, telecommunications and health, as well as in the chemical industry itself.

The company is geared completely to the circular economy. In addition, AV aims to achieve climate neutrality for its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2035, and the Group’s Scope 3 emissions are also set to be climate neutral by 2050. AV generated sales of EUR 14.2 billion in fiscal year 2024. At the end of 2024, the company had 46 production sites worldwide and employed approximately 17,500 people (calculated as full-time equivalents).

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A total of 500kg of waste was collected during the event, with a large component of the waste collected from industrial sources. Tangaroa Blue weighed and separated the waste, then logging that collected into a data base that is used to address the flow of litter at the source.

This is a small part of a bigger commitment to raise awareness about responsible waste management and engagement of everybody to address plastic pollution, and to inspire year-long action to live more sustainably.

AV Australia supporting the AV Global Commitment as “individuals and as a company, we need to care for our Planet”, Clean Up Day is putting this into action and making positive change.

From our CEO Markus Steilemann : “Resource consumption is increasing, mountains of waste are growing – with negative consequences for the environment and climate. There is an urgent need to take countermeasures and fundamentally change consumer habits and production patterns. We need to make the circular economy a reality, and the recycling of plastics is crucial for this. AV can and wants to play a central role in this”.

Full speed ahead with sustainability | AV

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